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Galatians 6:1
This passage of Scripture can help every Christian, every teacher, every home, and of course, every church.
Much of the church’s week is spent helping to reconcile a lost world to Christ.
But some of our time inevitably will be spent helping to restore other believers when they fall (not from salvation, but from fellowship).
The local church is a body of believers.
It is not God’s will that we sin, but he teaches us our proper response in times when church members fail.
The assumption of this passage is a repentant sinner.
The church cannot restore an unrepentant center.
I.
The Reality of Failure
It’s important to note the word “man.”
this means a person who is just like the rest of us; that is, he has desires, passions, and urges just like us.
He walks and lives in this flesh just like we do.
Therefore, he faces the very same temptations we do
A. The Attacks of Satan
The word overtaken means “overwhelmed by or caught in.”
Satan is always looking to bring harm to God’s people by overwhelming them in temptation or catching them in a vice.
B. The Aftermath of Temptation
The word fault means “a lapse or deviation from the truth; a character flaw.”
II.
The Restoration of Forgiveness
What is to be done when a Christian brother has succumbed to temptation, stumbled or fallen?
What is to be the spirit and attitude of the church?
How are we to approach the problem?
Are we to:
Criticize him
Withdraw from him
Shame him
Censor him
Dismiss him
Isolate him
Spread rumors about him
Slander him?
Note a fact: no sin is specified.
The sin may be large or small, black or gray, despicable or acceptable (to man), serious or innocent, harmful or harmless.
The point here is this: a true Christian brother can be overtaken by sin.
So when this happens what should be done?
Scripture is clear: Christian brothers are to restore him.
They are to help the brother:
Set him right
Restore him
Help cut out the sin
Mend him
Lead him back.
A. The Requirement
There are requirements for the restorers because all believers are mere men of like passions with all other men, and there are always some being overtaken by sin.
1. Ye which are spiritual
We as Christians fall into one of two categories: we are either spiritual or carnal.
The spiritual Christian is strong in the Lord.
This is a Christian who is walking in the Spirit.
How can we know if he is truly walking in the Spirit?
a) Does the believer bear the fruit of the Spirit?
b) Does the believer live a crucified life with Christ?
c) Does the believer walk in the Spirit
Live a life consistent with his position in Christ?
d) Does the believer walk free from super-spirituality and envy, pride and jealousy, arrogance and selfishness?
By the way a spiritual Christian is personally familiar with scripture because he has spent time with it!
2. In a spirit of meekness
Too often what is displayed is a spirit of:
Hardness
Indifference
Harshness
rejection
Author and teacher Dr.
Howard Hendricks tells the story of a young man who strayed from the Lord but was finally brought back by the help of a friend who really loved him.
When there was full repentance and restoration, Dr. Hendricks asked this Christian how it felt to be away from the Lord.
The young man said it seemed like he was out at sea, in deep water, deep trouble, and all his friends were on the shore hurling biblical accusations at him about justice, penalty, and wrong.
“But, there was one Christian brother who actually swam out to get me and would not let me go.
I fought him, but he pushed aside my fighting, grasped me, put a life jacket around me, and took me to shore.
By the grace of God, he was the reason I was restored.
He would not let me go.”
We must remember the brother may be very sensitive and perhaps embarrassed and easily shamed.
He could be too embarrassed to return to the fellowship of believers.
He could feel that he would be unwelcome.
Unless he is approached in the right spirit, he could be lost to the kingdom forever.
Jesus restored Peter even after Peter had denied Him in a crucial moment.
It is not the church’s place to bring chastisement upon the fallen Christian.
Judgment is done only by God.
The Christian army is the only army in the world that shoots its wounded.
Jesus restored a woman who had fallen into adultery.
There was no doubt that this woman was guilty because she was caught in the very act.
However, Christ forgave her and restored her through his compassionate love.
It is not our job as Christians to add more guilt to a sinner.
Only the Holy Spirit can convict someone of sin.
Our job is to love and restore.
However, sometimes in restoration there is a time someone may need to step down from a ministry or be placed off a team for a while.
But the goal is to see fruit and to ultimately restore this person.
B. The Restoration
The word restore means “to mend.”
This same word was sued of James and John when they were mending their nets.
The connotation of this word is that we should mend things with a fallen Christian so that he is useful once again.
What did it say again in:
A few years ago, a crazed man ran into a museum in Amsterdam and came to Rembrandt’s painting The Night Watch.
He took a knife and slashed it.
A few months later a man entered St. Peter’s Basilica in Rome.
He took a hammer and smashed the Pieta.
What did officials do?
Did they throw the works away?
No, they got the best artists of the day and
paid a great price to have the works restored.
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